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Lt. A. Soucek (USN) established world's altitude record of 39,140 feet, flying the Wright Apache over Anacostia, D.C.

A new division is established at the Gas Dynamics Laboratory GDL under Valentin P. Glushko to investigate liquid fuel and electric rockets. Some of the engineers and scientists under Glushko included A.L. Malyi, V.I. Serov, B.A. Kutkin, I.I. Kulagin, Ye. S. Petrov, Ye N. Kuzmin, N.G. Chernyshev, P.I. Minayev, V.P. Yukov, V.A. Timofeyev, N.M. Mukhin, and I.M. Pankin.

A liquid-fueled, 11-foot rocket, fired by Robert H. Goddard at Auburn, carried a small camera, thermometer, and a barometer which were recovered intact after the flight. Much "moon rocket" publicity was made of this flight. The rocket was reported to be nine feet long and 28 inches in diameter and exploded about 300 feet off the ground.

First flight made in France of an American-built military aircraft, a DH-4, built by Dayton Wright Co. adapted from English design.

''RELEASE: 10-203'' ''NASA SELECTS TWO FIRMS FOR EXPERIMENTAL SPACE VEHICLE TEST FLIGHTS'' WASHINGTON -- NASA's Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program (CRuSR) has awarded a total of approximately $475,000 to Armadillo Aerospace of Rockwall, Texas and Masten Space Systems of Mojave, Calif. The awards will allow the two companies to perform test flights of their experimental vehicles ...

''CONTRACT RELEASE C16-19'' '''NASA Awards Thermal Infrared Sensor-2 Instrument Cryocooler''' NASA has awarded a sole source contract to Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation of Boulder, Colorado, for the Thermal Infrared Sensor-2 (TIRS-2) instrument Cryocooler for Landsat 9. This a cost-plus fixed-fee contract in the amount of $18,249,103 million with a deliverable date of Feb. 3, 2018. ...

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